2007 ANNUAL MEETING

9 November - Morning Session 8:20-10:15

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Session 20: Perspectives on the Indian School Service in the Assimilationist Era

Organizers Wilbert H. Ahern, University of Minnesota, Morris
Cathleen Cahill, University of New Mexico
Chair/Discussant: R. David Edmunds, University of Texas-Dallas

Who Served the Indian Schools: Preliminary Patterns from a Demographic Analysis, 1895-1910
Wilbert H. Ahern, Department of History, University of Minnesota, Morris and Kevin
Whalen, University of Minnesota, Morris

”An Indian Teacher in the Indian Service”: Native Women as Federal Employees
Cathleen Cahill, Department of History, University of New Mexico

Tracing “Footprints”: Indian Employees in the Indian Service Schools, early 20th Century
Tsianina Lomawaima, American Indian Studies, University of Arizona

Residential Schools to Freedom School: Educational Experiences at the Akwsasne Mohawk
Reservation
Susan A., Stebbins, State University of New York—Potsdam

Session 21: Native American Performative Survivance in the Twentieth Century’

Organizer: Paul McKenzie-Jones. University of Oklahoma
Chair: Yvonne Tiger. University of Oklahoma
Discussant: L.G. Moses. Oklahoma State University

The Ponca Heluska and the Intertribal Powwow
Paul McKenzie-Jones. University of Oklahoma

Contemporary Cultural Performers in Oklahoma
Josh Clough. University of Oklahoma

The Creative Expression of the Kiowa Five
Jeff Palmer. University of Oklahoma

Angel de Cora—Art, Assimilation, and Indian Boarding School Education
Yvonne N. Tiger, University of Oklahoma

Session 22: Working in the Tradition of Patricia Albers: Representing Indians and Ethnic Minorities

Organizer: Jean M. O’Brien, University of Minnesota
Chair: Jean M. O’Brien, University of Minnesota
Discussant: Audience

moohkinamaanki niiyoonaani Making Ourselves Known: Miami Strategies to Assert Cultural Identity and Sovereignty as American Indians
Scott Shoemaker, University of Minnesota

Labor, Children, and the Marketing of the Southwest
Matthew Martinez, University of Minnesota

Indian-Watching in Southeast Asia
Scott Laderman, University of Minnesota, Duluth

Session 23: Religious Ritual and Related Cultures in Colonial Mesoamerica, Part One

Organizer(s): Matthew Restall, Pennsylvania State University, and Mark Christensen, Pennsylvania State University
Chair: Susan Schroeder, Tulane University
Discussant: John F. Schwaller, SUNY-Potsdam

Nahua Jurisdictions of the Divine in Mexico Tenochtitlan
Jonathan Truitt, Tulane University

“And it is Very True that Fathers and Mothers Love Their Children”: The Cultural Confrontation of Childrearing Between Nahuas and Friars in Early Colonial MexicoNadia Marín-Guadarrama, SUNY-Albany

Spelling out Salvation: The Construction of Nahua and Maya Ecclesiastical Vocabulary
Mark Christensen, Pennsylvania State University

Conquest Revisited: Medieval Sources and Mexican Staging of The Destruction of Jerusalem
Louise Burkhart, SUNY-Albany

A Language of Cures: Indigenous and Spanish Medicine in Eighteenth-Century Yucatán
Ryan A. Kashanipour, University of Arizona